Birštonas Updated the Culinary Map – Number of Culinary Options Continues to Grow

Anyone will agree that a good time is inseparable from good food. To offer the resort guests not only quality services for recreation, recreation and accommodation, over the past few years Birštonas has actively worked towards increasing the number of dining establishments. Currently, the resort of Birštonas located along the winding loops of the Neman has thirty establishments and the second edition of the Birštonas Culinary Map is devoted to them.

Thirty Dining Establishments Await for Birštonas Guests

Currently, Birštonas has a total of 30 places where one can eat, enjoy a coffee, dessert or just relax. With the information provided on the Birštonas Culinary Map, guests and residents of Birštonas will find it easier to decide what establishment to visit. Different formats of culinary options suit any event and occasion: restaurants, cafes, bars, pizzerias, coffee houses, burgers and snack bars. Some of them are open only in the warm season but the warm beginning of fall suggests that this year's season will last longer than usual.

For Those Who Are Looking For the Best - The Winners of a Culinary Competition

Holding the Culinary Competition every spring in Birštonas has already become the tradition. The competition aims at creating exclusive gastronomic traditions of the resort, motivating the establishments to keep changing, creatively thinking of the menu offered to their guests, and getting ready smoothly for the approaching summer season. The updated Birštonas Culinary Map presents winners and prize-winners in all three categories: the best appetizer, the best main course and the best dessert.

Particular Attention to Vegetarians and Vegans

The publication includes not only the places which offer the award-winning dishes but all dining establishments of the resort. In addition to general information, the Map also contains guidance what distinguishes this restaurant, cafe or bar among others as well as its specialties and the dish’s story. Birštonas Culinary Map is helpful for all visitors including those with specific culinary needs – vegetarians, vegans, intolerant to certain products. The Map has special sings for pet-friendly places as well as family-oriented ones where little guests always craving for entertainment are most welcome.

Birštonas Culinary Map is distributed by the Birštonas Tourism Information Center and other public places of the resort. Presently, only Lithuanian printed version of the Map is available, but shortly the Map will be published in English, Russian and Latvian. All Birštonas dining establishments can be found on the Internet HERE.

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Birštonas is a unique Lithuanian resort on the Nemunas River Loops. 82 % of Birštonas Municipality is in the territory of the Regional Park of the Great Nemunas Loops.

Down the ages the unique natural resources and outstanding landscape of the locality attracted many vacationers to visit Birštonas and its surroundings. The forests that grow green in the bends of the Nemunas were once the place of royal outings, when the hunting horn of Vytautas Magnus echoed through Žvėrinčius Forest to invite members of the then European royal families to set off in pursuit.

Birštonas is an international health resort in Lithuania, famous for its unique nature, Nemunas loops, mineral water and royal roots. The resort is endowed with natural resources: abundant mineral water sources, curative mud, clean air and health-friendly climate. The resort is proud of the sources of bromine-containing mineral water, which has been recognized and appreciated in Europe.